As a cybersecurity professional, how numb have you become to vendors who try to scare you with frightening statistics in an effort to sell you a new product? It is understandable that a vendor has to present as much information in a limited amount of attention-grabbing time, so their doomsday technique makes some sense. Perhaps the vendors’ approach is faulty, as the numbers are quite frightening indeed. There is definitely a larger point to be made. The intention…

There are a lot of things that you probably are unfamiliar with when it comes to CI/CD and the operating protocols that go along with it. One of the first things that you are going to need to know is that CI/CD stands for Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery. It can also stand for Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment, depending on the situation. All of these important topics will be discussed and covered so that…

IT needs to innovate with companies moving towards digital businesses. They need to deliver applications faster then ever before. Automation is the key element that delivers the agility to IT organizations to move towards becoming a digital enterprise.   Digital transformation is still the driving force for most companies today. Every company is or is moving towards becoming a digital business. The key to digital transformation is the application. Applications makes digital business become a…

Tanya Hannah has an ambitious agenda for the upcoming year, seeing in the months ahead the opportunity to use technology to change how work gets done and how constituent needs get fulfilled. Hannah, CIO for King County, Wash., sees 2021 as a time to reimagine: how the county operates, how it delivers services, and how it serves the people who live and work within its boundaries. “We want to make King County a place where…

OVAL is the Open Vulnerability Assessment Language, which uses XML based documents to define vulnerabilities based on characteristics of a host system. It can also be used to gather information about the host. When an OVAL file is evaluated, it generates a report file with the results of the vulnerability evaluation or a system characteristics file containing information gathered from the host. OVAL Definitions, OVAL System Characteristics and OVAL Results These capabilities are achieved through three distinct…

No doubt, we have a lot to be hopeful for as we step into the New Year. We’ve adapted, survived, and learned to thrive under extraordinary circumstances. While faced with plenty of challenges, families successfully transitioned to working and learning from home like pros. So, as we set our intentions for 2021, we will need that same resolve to tackle growing cyber threats. The good news: With a COVID-19 vaccine making its debut, we’re trusting there’s…